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- 16 Sep 2024
- News
Life Preserver
“There’s a massive gap between how many people get to benefit from a lifesaving organ transplant and how many truly need one,” says Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009). He’s spent the last decade trying to change that. In the United States alone, scientists estimate between... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
Carson. He also found inspiration in a case study on Doug Rauch, former president of Trader Joe’s, who created a nonprofit grocery store model. “I had been working 25 years,” Carson says, “and Harvard gave me a whole lot of different... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school’s gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
Once the public schools in North Chicago decided to close in mid-March because of COVID-19, it took Jennifer Grumhaus (MBA 1994) and her staff less than 72 hours to totally revamp the business model for the nonprofit she runs, North... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Profile
Scott Wu
and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
challenges in creative ways: "The Robin Hood Foundation" (with Catherine Ross). Created by hedge fund and investment managers, the Robin Hood Foundation fights poverty through grants to nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Student Benefits from Class of 2006 Fellowship
comes to HBS with a passion for education and three years of social enterprise experience. Most recently, she served as the new schools development associate at The SEED Foundation, a nonprofit that partners with urban communities to... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
become an aruaba, ‘a woman who goes to work in a business suit,’ in the West African language Twi,” says Crane, founder of Edify, a nonprofit that provides micro-enterprise loans to faith-based schools in Africa and Latin America. “I’m... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
1967 Founds Asset Management Company 1980 Provides early capital for Amgen, joins board 1998 Appointed chairman, San Francisco Opera Association 1999 Funds BUILD, nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship to... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
production to feed the rapidly growing world population, expected to reach 9 billion in the next three decades. So in 2013, at the age of 41, Tiller retired from hedge-fund management to establish Sustainable America, an ambitious View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
recently established a fund to support students who intend to work to improve society. “Today not only is the debt burden much higher, but the education the School provides is extremely valuable to those interested in public service or... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
$649B in stimulus funds to small businesses. We are targeting these funds to underserved communities and critical supply chains. Justin Crist Lee (MBA 2021), Lucas Santos (MBA 2022) and Truc Nguyen (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
quickly, the School doubled funding for its summer fellowship program and opened it up to graduating as well as first-year students. These fellowships provide stipends to supplement lower-paying internships (for example, at View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Donors Invest in Students’ Future
HBS. The annual rite of spring brings together donors and their student beneficiaries for dinner in Shad Hall. Barcott, a graduate of UNC–Chapel Hill who served in the Marine Corps in Iraq before enrolling at HBS, told a moving story of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
nonprofit consultancy of its type. Its staff offers strategy consulting, executive search, and advice on developing funding models. Bridgespan today is far different from the organization laid out in the... View Details
- 06 Aug 2015
- News
A Wall Street Pioneer Comes Home
to serve as JSJ’s vice chairman of the board in addition to overseeing a family foundation fund and volunteering in community organizations. “I knew I wanted to come back to this area at some point,” she says. “One of my aims was to give... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Many HBS graduates are now leading companies and nonprofit organizations involved in the environment or sustainability – as entrepreneurs, innovators, financiers, or philanthropists. Following is a selected list of notable alumni and the... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Hybrids and Hybrid Organizing: A Review and Roadmap for Future Research By: Battilana, Julie, Marya Besharov, and Bjoern Mitzinneck Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to advance research on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2018
- News
Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community
expressing my opinions and making presentations,” Lien explains. After HBS, Lien returned to Morgan Stanley, rising to executive director of mergers and acquisitions. She then moved to San Francisco, eventually leaving investment banking to utilize her finance and... View Details